California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 1 - Rates

• Section 451.
  All charges demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to...
• Section 451.5.
  (a) Any expense resulting from a bonus paid to an executive officer of a public utility that has ceased to pay its debts in the ordinary...
• Section 452.
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from establishing and charging a lower than a maximum reasonable rate for the...
• Section 453.
  (a) No public utility shall, as to rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any corporation...
• Section 453.5.
  Whenever the commission orders rate refunds to be distributed, the commission shall require public utilities to pay refunds to all current utility customers, and, when...
• Section 454.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 455, a public utility shall not change any rate or so alter any classification, contract, practice, or rule as to...
• Section 454.1.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a customer with a maximum peak electrical demand in excess of 20 kilowatts located or planning to locate...
• Section 454.2.
  Notwithstanding Section 454, the commission may establish a “zone of rate freedom” for any passenger stage transportation service which is operating in competition with other...
• Section 454.3.
  The commission may, after a hearing, approve an increase of from one-half of 1 percent to 1 percent in the rate of return otherwise allowed...
• Section 454.4.
  The commission shall establish rates for gas which is utilized in cogeneration technology projects not higher than the rates established for gas utilized as a...
• Section 454.5.
  (a) The commission shall specify the allocation of electricity, including quantity, characteristics, and duration of electricity delivery, that the Department of Water Resources shall provide under...
• Section 454.51.
  The commission shall do all of the following:(a) Identify a diverse and balanced portfolio of resources needed to ensure a reliable electricity supply that provides optimal...
• Section 454.52.
  (a) (1) Beginning in 2017, and to be updated regularly thereafter, the commission shall adopt a process for each load-serving entity, as defined in Section 380, to...
• Section 454.54.
  In addition to the requirements of Section 454.52, the integrated resource plan of each load-serving entity shall contribute to a diverse and balanced portfolio of...
• Section 454.55.
  (a) (1) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for an electrical corporation...
• Section 454.56.
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for the gas...
• Section 454.6.
  (a) A contract entered into pursuant to Section 454.5 by an electrical corporation for the electricity generated by a replacement or repowering project that meets the...
• Section 454.7.
  The commission shall, to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with Section 2771, provide cogeneration technology projects with the highest possible priority for...
• Section 454.8.
  In any decision establishing rates for an electrical or gas corporation reflecting the reasonable and prudent costs of the new construction of any addition to...
• Section 454.9.
  (a) The commission shall authorize public utilities to establish catastrophic event memorandum accounts and to record in those accounts the costs of the following:(1) Restoring utility services...
• Section 455.
  Whenever any schedule stating an individual or joint rate, classification, contract, practice, or rule, not increasing or resulting in an increase in any rate, is...
• Section 455.1.
  Whenever a water corporation files with the commission, pursuant to an advice letter submitted in accordance with commission procedures for this means of submission, a...
• Section 455.2.
  (a) The commission shall issue its final decision on a general rate case application of a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service connections in a...
• Section 455.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to Section 454, no later than January 1, 1998, the commission shall adopt rules and...
• Section 455.5.
  (a) In establishing rates for any electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation, the commission may eliminate consideration of the value of any portion of any electric,...
• Section 456.
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any public utility from profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies, efficiencies,...
• Section 458.
  (a) No common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall, by means of known false billing,...
• Section 459.
  (a) No person or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, by any false statement or representation as...
• Section 460.3.
  (a) The commission shall prohibit any passenger stage corporation from charging any fare to, or imposing any other charge on, any physically disabled or handicapped passenger...
• Section 460.7.
  (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, and continuing thereafter, every passenger stage corporation shall file with the commission one of the following:(1) A certificate of workers’ compensation coverage...
• Section 461.2.
  For purposes of establishing rates for a telephone or telegraph corporation, the commission shall include all revenues and expenses of the corporation from the installation...
• Section 461.5.
  (a) (1) No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the...
• Section 462.
  Every street or interurban railroad corporation shall upon such terms as the commission finds to be just and reasonable furnish to its passengers transfers entitling...
• Section 463.
  (a) For purposes of establishing rates for any electrical or gas corporation, the commission shall disallow expenses reflecting the direct or indirect costs resulting from any...
• Section 463.5.
  (a) Section 463 does not require the commission to undertake a reasonableness review of recorded costs to determine the reasonableness of the costs of each item...
• Section 464.
  (a) Reasonable expenditures by transmission owners that are electrical corporations to plan, design, and engineer reconfiguration, replacement, or expansion of transmission facilities are in the public...
• Section 465.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), whenever any labor of a custodial or janitorial nature is not performed by the employees of a public utility,...
• Section 466.
  Pursuant to Section 465, the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and any subcontractor under him shall pay not less than the specified prevailing...
• Section 467.
  The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations shall enforce Section 466 in the same manner as provided for by Chapter...

Last modified: October 22, 2018